A HUGE INDUSTRY.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 25 March 1914, Page 4

A HUGE INDUSTRY.

Fifty thousand trunks of tvees have to be sacrificed every day to make the paper necessary for the printing of the English journals and periodicals managed by Lord Northcliffe, either as proprietor or principal director. His lordship long ago gave up drawing on the forests of Norway, because of the continual rise in the price of European timber, and he is now at the head of a company which is exploiting the timber recources of Newfoundland. Here the industry has created a regular to^n of 3000 inhabitants, all employed by the company. The trees are felled and carried by water to the saw pit, where hugh. circular saws cut them up into small pieces, which are then pounded by steam beetles into a paste, which is sent by ship to Crravesend, where 1000 tons of paper are turned out of the factories every day. This is the output which is found necessary for the printing of the 25, 000,000 "copies of the sixty different journals and periodicals controlled by Lord Northcliffe